Monday 7 July

• EU Council. Eurogroup meeting (Brussels) (see EUROPE 13673/22). *Normal format: - Fiscal policy coordination - euro area fiscal stance for 2026. - Assessing the international role of the euro. - Euro area enlargement to Bulgaria. - Election of the President of the Eurogroup. - Miscellaneous. *Inclusive format: - Digital Euro. - Savings and Investment Union: follow-up to the Eurogroup statement on the progress of the Capital Markets Union and prospects for the European Investment Bank.
• EU Council. Informal meeting of employment ministers (and 08/07 - Aalborg - DK). In the presence of representatives of the European Commission, the European Parliament, various organisations and Enrico Letta, author of the report on strengthening the Single Market. - Working session I: round table on free and fair mobility.
• EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): - Special Committee on Agriculture (SCA). - Budget Committee. - Cultural Affairs Committee. - Other meetings: https://aeur.eu/f/hp9
• EN European Parliament. Plenary sitting (to 10/07 – Strasbourg). Agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/hp3
• European Parliament. Committee activities (Strasbourg): - AGRI: vote on the report on the future of agriculture and the post-2027 CAP (rapp. C. Crespo Diaz) (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/hp4 ). - IMCO: vote on the report on public procurement (rapp. P. Müller) (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/hp6 ). - ENVI-IMCO: exchange of views with the Commissioner for the Environment, Water Resilience and the Competitive Circular Economy, Jessika Roswall, and presentation of the Water Resilience Strategy; vote on the report on vehicle design requirements and end-of-life vehicle management (rapp. J. Gieseke and P. Saudargas) (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/hpe ).

Tuesday 8 July

• EU Council. Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Brussels). - Euro area: adoption of the final legislative acts paving the way for Bulgaria’s accession to the euro area. - Stability and Growth Pact: activation of the derogation from the SGP for Member States that request it to increase their defence spending; decisions and recommendations in the context of excessive deficit procedures; setting of maximum net expenditure trajectories contained in the medium-term budgetary and structural plans of certain Member States. - Danish Presidency: presentation of the work programme in the field of economic and financial affairs. - European Semester 2025: approval of country-specific recommendations. - Single currency: policy debate on the ‘single currency’ package on the basis of a Presidency document. - Savings and Investment Union: presentation by the Commission of its proposal to amend the securitisation framework and exchange of views. - Recovery and Resilience Facility: adoption of implementing decisions approving the amended plans of certain Member States. - Ukraine: exchange of views on the economic and financial repercussions of the war. - G20: approval of the EU mandate for the G20 Finance Summit (17-18/07). - Financial services: presentation by the Presidency of the state of progress of legislative proposals relating to financial services. - ‘A’ items: acts or measures to be adopted without debate: https://aeur.eu/f/hp8
• EU Council. Informal meeting of employment ministers (and 08/07 - Aalborg - DK). - Working session II: Competitiveness in the field of employment.
• EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): - Political and Security Committee (PSC). - Antici Group. - Mertens Group. - Working Party on the United Kingdom. - Other meetings: https://aeur.eu/f/hpa
• European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners (Strasbourg). – 2025 Annual Rule of Law Report (Virkkunen). – Chemicals package: +Action plan for the EU chemicals industry (Séjourné). +Sixth Omnibus on chemicals (part 1) (Séjourné/Dombrovskis). - EU Stockpiling Strategy (Mînzatu). - Strategy to support medical countermeasures against public health threat (Mînzatu).
• European Parliament. Plenary sitting (to 10/07 – Strasbourg). Agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/hp3
• European Parliament. Committee activities (Strasbourg): - SEDE: meeting of shadow rapporteurs.

Wednesday 9 July

• EU Council. 3rd European Union/African Union ministerial meeting (Brussels).
• EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): - Coreper I. - Coreper II. - Political and Security Committee (PSC). - Financial Services Committee (FSC). - Security Committee. - Other meetings: https://aeur.eu/f/hpb
• European Parliament. Plenary sitting (to 10/07 – Strasbourg). Agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/hp3
• General Court of the EU (Luxembourg). #Judgments: - T-534/24 (Gotek - can a Member State impose excise duties on products which have been the subject of false invoices?). - T-163/23 (Fritz Egger and others v ECHA - Melamine) and T-167/23 LAT (Nitrogen Piesteritz and Cornerstone v ECHA- Melamine - can the identification of a substance as a substance of very high concern be annulled if the undertakings concerned consider that the scientific or procedural criteria laid down by the REACH Regulation have not been complied with?). - T-1170/23, T-1171/23, T-1172/23 and T-1173/23 (Spin Master Toys UK/EUIPO - Verdes Innovations - Shape of a cube with faces having a grid structure - can a three-dimensional trade mark be validly registered where its shape, including the colours, is necessary to obtain a technical result?). - T-304/24 (sprd.net/EUIPO - Capital letter “I” and red heart on the left breast of a garment), T-305/24 (sprd.net/EUIPO - Capital letter “I” and red heart on an inner label of a garment) and T-306/24 (sprd.net/EUIPO - Capital “I” and red heart on an outer garment at the nape of the neck - can a simple sign, perceived as a customary expression of affection, constitute a valid position mark when affixed to clothing?) - T-1031/23 (Kaili v Parliament - can a Member of the European Parliament obtain access to documents relating to the administrative activity of the European Parliament in the context of legal proceedings concerning them, or can such access be refused on the grounds of the protection of those proceedings?).

Thursday 10 July

• EU Council. Informal meeting of environment ministers (and 11/07 - Aalborg - DK). Three ministries involved (Environment; Energy and Supply; Green Deal for Growth and Jobs). - Working session I: discussion on preparation for the COP30 in Brazil with the participation of the future COP30 Presidency. - Working session II: strategic discussion on the state of the environment in Europe and the way forward for EU environmental policy up to 2030. - Working session III: visit to Store Vildmose to see green tripartism in practice.
• EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): - Budget Committee. - Trade Policy Committee (alternate members). - Financial Services Officers. - Working Party on External Aspects of Asylum and Migration. - Other meetings: https://aeur.eu/f/hpc
• European Parliament. Plenary sitting (Strasbourg). Agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/hp3 ]
• Court of Justice of the EU (Luxembourg). #Judgments: - C-783/23 (Liège Airport Security - can the national authority responsible for monitoring airport security standards be an entity other than that designated under Union law?). - C-287/24 (Royal Belgian League for the Protection of Birds - under what conditions can a Commission implementing decision derogate from the environmental obligations laid down in the regulations governing direct payments under the common agricultural policy?). #Conclusions: - C-722/23 (Rugu) and C-91/24 (Aucroix - is a judicial authority refusing to execute a European arrest warrant obliged, in order to avoid impunity of convicted persons, to order the execution of the sentence on its territory?). - C-797/23 (Meta Platforms Ireland - Fair compensation - what limits are placed by EU law on measures taken by Member States to strengthen the bargaining position of press publishers in the context of the upheaval of the traditional economic model of the media and print media sector?) - C-258/24 (Katholische Schwangerschaftsberatung - does the decision of an ecclesiastical employer to dismiss an employee for having left the Church, even though it employs other persons who are not members of the Church in similar posts, constitute unlawful discrimination?) - C-554/24 P (Poland v Commission - Retroactive annulment of interim measures - did the removal from the register of the case concerning the Czech-Polish dispute over lignite extraction activities in the Turów mine have the effect of extinguishing Poland’s obligation to pay the amount of €68,500,000 due in respect of its order to pay a daily penalty payment of €500,000 for the period from 20 September 2021 to 3 February 2022?)

Friday 11 July

• EU Council. Informal meeting of environment ministers (and 11/07 - Aalborg - DK). - Working session IV: discussion on EU climate policy up to 2040 to ensure climate neutrality in 2050. - Working session V: preparations for a strong and united EU in the forthcoming UN negotiations on an agreement on plastic pollution.
• EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): - Working Party on the United Kingdom. - Law Enforcement Working Party (Police and Customs). - Other meetings: https://aeur.eu/f/hpd